CAO Cameroon

Giuseppe Pignatiello says:

"Great sampler with travel humidor"

CAO Cameroon cigars are wrapped with Grade One African Cameroon wrapper and filled and bound with rich, earthy Nicaraguan tobacco. The result is a mild to medium, sweet, spicy, coffee and caramel laden smoke. One of the mildest cigars of the CAO brand, the Cameroon has been rated 92 by Cigar Aficionado.

Cigar Origin

Nicaragua

Most cigars are manufactured in the Caribbean and Central America.

Strength

Medium

Wrapper Color

Colorado

Cigar wrapper color varies from green (Double Claro or Candela) to black (Maduro or Oscuro) with a full range of browns in between.Colorado is a medium brown color also known as EMS or English Market Selection as this used to be the color with more popularity in England than in America.

Wrapper

Cameroon

The wrapper is the last tobacco leaf to be rolled on the cigar, so it is the one the smoker will see.Cameroon wrappers are grown in the East part of the country. The growing area spreads over the eastern border, into the Central African Republic. Wrappers are air grown, without fertilizers and pesticides, by small farmers. The average plantation size is about one acre. The seed is originally from Sumatra, introduced in the country just after WWII.

Binder

Nicaragua

The binder is a full tobacco leaf that is used to roll the cigar, binding the filler tobaccos together.

Filler

Nicaragua

Filler is the term used to describe the tobacco inside a cigar or the "guts" of the cigar.

Rolled by

Handmade

Handmade cigars are completely made by hand from start to finish.

Manufacturer

General Cigars/ST Group

General Cigar Company manufactures premium cigars in several factories located in the Dominican Republic, Honduras, and Nicaragua. Founded by Edgar Cullman, Sr. in 1960, the company experienced incredible success with their Macanudo brand. After a series of acquisitions throughout the years that made General Cigars one of the largest cigar manufacturers in the world, the company merged with Scandinavian Tobacco Group (STG) in 2010.

Cameroon wrapper is heralded as among the most flavorful and highest valued wrapper leaf on the planet. This cigar highlights the rich, spicy-sweet flavor of Cameroon tobacco. The CAO Cameroon was rated 92 by Cigar Aficionado.

CAO Champions II Sampler celebrates CAO's continued success and updates the collection with its latest ratings winners. Encased in an attractive black leather travel humidor, the cigars within are the best of the original Champions Sampler along with the addition of the highly rated OSA Sol and Lx2. These two cigars allow the Champions Sampler II to showcase the full spectrum of offerings from CAO.

This Cameroon ranks up there with the best of them. The wrapper is slightly veiny but still has a nice look with the box-press. The draw was good through such a long stick. The burn was perfectly even all the way down. The taste and aroma are great with a rich flavor. I would rank this light to medium but more on the medium side. One of the best Cameroons around!

A good cigar, but it could have been better. The wrapper fell apart in the cold, and the draw was way to firm for the first 15 minutes. Mine had an uneven burn that required touch-ups, but it could have been the windy conditions I was in. On the good side it has a great woody aroma and taste to it that lasted me about 45 minutes to smoke it to the nub.

I tend to prefer more full body cigars, but tried one of these recently just to change it up a bit. I was pleasantly surprised by this cigar. Burn was a bit uneven and had to be touched up a couple of times on the one that I had, but could have been all user error. Still a wonderful cigar that I would recommend to anyone.

I purchased this product to share with my employees after work. We enjoyed it so much that we are doing this every month now. Excellent cigars. Product was extremely fresh and the service was excellent.